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Pretty Village, Pretty Flame Pretty Village, Pretty Flame (Serbian: Лепа села лепо горе or Lepa sela lepo gore) is a controversial 1996 Serbian film directed by Srđan Dragojević that gave uniquely bleak yet ironic portrayal of the Bosnian War. It is considered a modern classic of Serbian cinema.
Pretty Woman Pretty Woman is an American romantic comedy motion picture that was one of the top films at the box office in 1990. The title character, a prostitute named Vivian Ward, was played by Julia Roberts, who received a Golden Globe Award for her role.
Prettyprint To prettyprint (or pretty-print) is to present an object to a human reader, so that it is easier to perceive the object's structure, or, less commonly, to simply make it more attractive. A prettyprinter is a computer program that prettyprints.
Pretz Pretz (プリッツ, purittsu) is a Japanese snack made by Ezaki Glico. It is stick-shaped and similar in texture to a pretzel (hence the name), but unlike the other popular Japanese stick-shaped snack food, Pocky, Pretz is rarely sweet.
Pretzel Logic (song) Pretzel Logic is a single released by Steely Dan off of their album Pretzel Logic, originally released in 1974 by ABC Records. The song talks about 3 topics, them being wanting to visit the Southern United States with a group of ministrels, wanting to meet Napoleon Bonaparte because he is lonely, and being the victim of fashion by being questioned about his shoes, in which he answers that he saw them in motion pictures and television and that "the times are changing".
Pretzsch (Elbe) Pretzsch is a small town on the river Elbe in Wittenberg district, Saxony-Anhalt, Germany; and is a part of the administrative community (Verwaltungsgemeinschaft) of Kurregion Elbe-Heideland, whose seat is in the town of Bad Schmiedeberg.
PreTeena PreTeena, sometimes spelled Preteena, is a daily American comic strip written and drawn by Allison Barrows and syndicated by Universal Press Syndicate since 2001. It concerns the daily life of 10-year-old girl Teena Keene, and her interactions with her family, friends, and teachers.
Preußenschlag The Preußenschlag (Prussian coup) was one of the major steps towards the destruction of the German Weimar Republic (1919-1933) and the rise of Adolf Hitler to power. On July 20, 1932, Reichspräsident (Reich president) Paul von Hindenburg issued an emergency decree which dismissed the cabinet of Prussia, the largest German Land (state).
PreuĂźisch Oldendorf PreuĂźisch Oldendorf is a town and a municipality in the Minden-LĂĽbbecke district, in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. It is situated on the north side of the Wiehengebirge, approximatively 10 km west of LĂĽbbecke and 20 km north-west of Herford.
Preus Museum Preus Museum is the national museum for photography in Norway and is situated in Horten. It was originally founded by the Preus family as a private museum, but the collection was acquired by the Norwegian government in 1995.
Preuss's Monkey Preuss's Monkey (Cercopithecus preussi), also known as Preuss's Guenon, is a diurnal primate that lives terrestrially in mountainous (up to 2500 m) forests of eastern Nigeria, western Cameroon and Bioko in Equatorial Guinea. It is sometimes classified as a subspecies of the L'Hoest's Monkey (C.
Preussag Preussag AG was a German mining concern which later operated in a variety of industries. It was incorporated in October 9 1923 as PreuĂźische Bergwerks- und HĂĽtten-Aktiengesellschaft (Prussian Mine and Foundary Company).
PreussenElektra PreussenElektra (Preußische Elektrizitäts AG) was founded in 1927 With its headquarters in Berlin. It operated two thermal power stations, Borken in Hesse and Ahlem in Hanover, and eight hydroelectric stations.
Prevailing visibility Prevailing visibility in aviation is a measurement of the greatest distance visible throughout at least half of the horizon, not necessarily continuously. To take the prevailing visibility, controllers reference a number of visual reference points: usually buildings, hills, or other geographic features.
Prevailing winds The prevailing winds are the trends in speed and direction of wind over a particular point on the earth's surface. A region's prevailing winds often reflect global patterns of movement in the earth's atmosphere.
Prevayler Prevayler is an object prevalence layer written in Java, used to transparently persist Plain Old Java Objects. Read operations are three to four orders of magnitude faster with Prevayler when compared to traditional database systems fact since all objects are always in RAM and in-process.
Preved Preved () is a meme in the Russian-speaking Internet which developed out of a heavily-circulated picture, and consists of choosing alternative spellings for words for comic effect. The picture, a modified version of John Lurie's watercolor Bear Surprise, whose popularity was stoked by emails and blogs, features a man and a woman having sex in the clearing of a forest, when suddenly a bear comes out, and with paws raised, says "Surprise!
Prevention (magazine) Prevention is an American healthy lifestyle magazine, published by Rodale Press in Emmaus, Pennsylvania, in the United States. The range of subjects include food, nutrition, workouts, beauty, cooking, and more.
Prevention of Disasters Principle In international law, the Prevention of Disasters Principle, as first elaborated in the UN Habitat II Agenda, permits states to take pre-emptive or restraining actions when a consensus of scientific opinion is that failing to do so will cause some disaster to occur. See also the Precautionary Principle.
Prevention of Nuclear War Agreement The Agreement on the Prevention of Nuclear War, was signed in Washington on June 22, 1973, during a relative period of [detente]. United States and the Soviet Union agreed to make the removal of the danger of nuclear war and the use of nuclear weapons an "objective of their policies," to practice restraint in their relations toward each other and toward all countries, and to pursue a policy dedicated toward stability and peace.
Prevention of Terror Ordinance Prevention of Terror Ordinance (, Khok Sikul haTerror; ) is the statute used by the prosecution in most trials in Israel against suspects arrested by the Shabak, Israeli Police, Magav/Border Guard, or the Israel Defense Forces for security offenses. The PTO has been used in both military and civil courts, though they are applied in different ways.
Prevention of Terrorism Act 2005 The Prevention of Terrorism Act 2005 is a British Act of Parliament intended to deal with the Law Lords' ruling of 16 December, 2004, that the detention without trial of nine foreigners at HM Prison Belmarsh under Part IV of the Anti-terrorism, Crime and Security Act 2001 was unlawful, being incompatible with European (and, thus, domestic) human rights laws. It was given Royal Assent on March 11, 2005.
Prevention of Terrorist Activities Act The Prevention of Terrorist Activities Act (PoTA) was an anti-terrorism legislation enacted by the Parliament of India in 2002. The legislation was introduced by the governing NDA coalition dominated by the Bharatiya Janata Party.
Preventive Diplomacy Preventive diplomacy is action to prevent disputes from arising between parties, to prevent existing disputes from escalating into conflicts and to limit the spread of the latter when they occur. UN Secretary General Report "Agenda for Peace", 1992 [.
Preventive journalism Preventive journalism is a journalistic discipline aimed at analyzing the causes of crises and conflicts from an integrated approach. It follows the development of such events from their origins to their violent outburst and their later consequences.
Preventive medicine Generally speaking, preventive medicine is that part of medicine engaged with preventing disease rather than curing it. It can be contrasted not only with curative medicine, but also with public health methods (which work at the level of population health rather than individual health).
Preventive Maintenance Checks and Services In the United States military, Preventive Maintenance Checks and Services, or PMCS, are the checks, service and maintenance performed before, during, and after any type of movement, or before the use of all types of military equipment. Every piece of military equipment has a PMCS Chart used to go over every detail needed or noted to ensure the proper function of every mechanical item or non-mechanical surface.
Preventorium A preventorium was an institution or building for patients infected with tuberculosis who did not yet have an active form of the disease. Popular in the early 20th century, preventoria were designed to isolate these patients from uninfected individuals as well as patients who showed outward symptoms.
Preverb Although not widely accepted in linguistics, the term preverb is used in Caucasian (including all three families: Northwest Caucasian, Nakh-Dagestanian and Kartvelian), Caddoan, and Algonquian linguistics to describe certain elements prefixed to verbs.
Previdential Previdential is from the Italian word previdenza, meaning "social security", used in the Italian legal and insurance business as a translation for previdenza, seems to be totally unknown outside some Italian websites, and the EU-Equal Terms office.
Previous question In parliamentary procedure, previous question, calling for the question, calling the question, putting the question is a motion to end debate and bring the main motion to a vote. It is usually invoked by a member saying, "I call [for] the question.
Previsualization Pre-visualization (also known as pre-vis, pre vis, pre viz, pre-viz, previs, or animatics) is a technique in which low-cost digital technology aids the filmmaking process. It involves using computer graphics (usually 3D) to create rough versions of the shots in a movie sequence.
Prevnar Prevnar is a a seven-valent pneumococcal conjugate vaccine manufactured by Wyeth and used to protect infants and young children against pneumococcal disease. Prevnar contains the cell membrane sugars of seven serotypes of Streptococcus pneumonia, conjugated with Diphtheria proteins.
Prevost's Ground-Sparrow The Prevost's Ground-Sparrow or White-faced Ground-Sparrow, Melozone biarcuatum, is an American sparrow which breeds at middle altitudes from southern Mexico to western Honduras and in Costa Rica. The isolated Costa Rican form may be a separate species, M.
Prewitt Prewitt is a method of edge detection in computer graphics which calculates the maximum response of a set of convolution kernels to find the local edge orientation for each pixel. Various kernels can be used for this operation.
Prey (film) Prey is a film in post production as of 2006. It details how an American family’s dream holiday become a nightmare when they get lost and find themselves desperately out of their depth in the remote bush, while being stalked by a pride of persistent and ruthless lions.
Prey (novel) Prey is a techno-thriller novel by Michael Crichton first published in hardback edition in November 2002 and as a paperback edition in November 2003 by Harper Collins. According to IMDB there will be a film adaptation due out in 2007; details are unavailable.
Prez (DC Comics) Prez: First Teen President was a four issue comic series by Joe Simon (the creator of Captain America) released by DC Comics in 1973 and 1974. It followed the adventures of Prez Rickard, the first teenage President of the United States of America, whose election apparently had been made possible by a Constitutional amendment lowering the age of eligibility to accommodate the then-influential youth culture of the baby boom.
Priamel A priamel is a literary and rhetorical device found most often in ancient Greek poetry and consisting of a series of listed alternatives that serve as foils to the true subject of the poem, which is revealed in a climax. For example, Fragment Number 16 by the Greek poet Sappho begins with a priamel:
Priapeia The Priapeia is a collection of poems (ninety five in number) in various meters on the subject of Priapus. It was compiled from literary works and inscriptions on images of the god by an unknown editor, who composed the introductory epigram.
Priapism Priapism (Greek πριαπισμός, erection) is a painful and potentially harmful medical condition in which the erect penis does not return to its flaccid state (despite the absence of both physical and psychological stimulation) within four hours.
Priapus In Greek mythology, Priapus (Greek: Πρίαπος) was a minor rustic fertility god of purely phallic character, protector of livestock, fruit plants, gardens and male genitalia. (Roman equivalent: Mutinus Mutunus.
Priapus (Marvel Comics) In Marvel Comics, Priapus (named after the Roman god Priapus) was a super-villain leader of a cult based on sensual pleasures. He was searching for the Carnal Serpent, allegedly an artifact of extreme erotic power responsible for things such as Adam and Eve's betrayal of God's trust to the obscenity that forced God to destroy Sodom and Gomorra, as well as the ecstasy that put an end to the Dark Ages in Europe.
Pribilof Islands The Pribilof Islands (often called the Fur Seal Islands, Russian: Kotovi) are a group of four volcanic islands, part of Alaska, lying in the Bering Sea, about 200 miles north of Unalaska and 200 miles south of Cape Newenham, the nearest point on the North American mainland. The Siberian coast is roughly 500 miles away.
Pribislav Pribislav Henry (; 1127 – 1150) was a Christian prince and the last ruler of the Slavic Havolane tribe in the Northern March of Brandenburg. During Pribislav's reign, in which he cultivated close connections with the German nobility, Germans succeeded in binding to the Holy Roman Empire the Havolanie region from Brandenburg an der Havel to Spandau.
Pribnow box The Pribnow box (also known as the Pribnow-Schaller box) is the sequence TATAAT of six nucleotides (thymine-adenine-thymine-etc.) that is an essential part of a promoter site on DNA for transcription to occur in prokaryotes.
Pribumi Pribumi is a term that refers to a population group in Indonesia that shares a similar sociocultural heritage. Translated from inlander in Dutch, the term was first coined by the Dutch colonial administration to lump diverse groups of local inhabitants of Indonesia's archipelago, mostly for social discrimination purposes.
Price comparison service On the internet, a price comparison service (also known as shopping comparison or price engine) allows individuals to see lists of prices for specific products. Most price comparison services do not sell products themselves, but source prices from retailers from whom users can buy.
Price Cobb Price Cobb (born December 10, 1954) won the 1990 24 Hours of Le Mans together with John Nielsen and Martin Brundle on a Jaguar XJR-12. He also owned an Indy Racing League team in 1998 and 1999 for Roberto Guerrero and Jim Guthrie.
Price discrimination Price discrimination exists when sales of identical goods or services are transacted at different prices from the same provider. In a theoretical market with perfect information, no transaction costs or prohibition on secondary exchange (or re-selling) to prevent arbitrage, price discrimination can only be a feature of monopoly markets.
Price dispersion In economics, price dispersion is the distribution of prices across sellers of the same item, standardized for the item's characteristics. Price dispersion can be viewed as a measure of trading frictions (or, tautologically, as a violation of the law of one price).
Price elasticity of demand In economics and business studies, the price elasticity of demand (PED) is an elasticity that measures the nature and degree of the relationship between changes in quantity demanded of a good and changes in its price.
Price ending Price ending, or more commonly psychological pricing, is the practice whereby advertised prices are consistently just below round numbers; for example, such prices might end in a sequence of nines. The price is often equivalent to a round number minus the value of the smallest coin: typically ending .
Price fixing Price fixing is an agreement between business competitors selling the same product or service regarding its pricing. In general, it is an agreement intended to ultimately push the price of a product as high as possible, leading to profits for all the sellers.
Price gouging Price gouging is a frequently pejorative reference to a seller's asking a price that is much higher than what is seen as 'fair' under the circumstances. In precise, legal usage, it is the name of a felony that applies in some of the United States only during civil emergencies.
Price guide A price guide is a book or online site that attempts to deliver accurate and concise valuation information for a good. Many industries and hobbies rely heavily on independent pricing sources when evaluating an item to sell or to purchase.
Price Look-Up codes Price Look-Up codes or Product Lookup Number, commonly called PLU codes or PLU numbers, are identification numbers affixed to produce in grocery stores and supermarkets to make check-out and inventory control easier, faster, and more accurate. The code is a four-digit number, currently in the 3000-4000 range, identifying the type of bulk produce (and related items such as nuts and herbs), usually including the variety.
Price markdown A price markdown is a deliberate reduction in the selling price of retail merchandise. It is used to increase the velocity (rate of sale) of an article, typically for clearance at the end of a season, or to sell off obsolete merchandise at the end of its life.
Price revolution Used generally to describe a series of economic events from the second half of the 15th century to the first half of the 17th, the price revolution refers most specifically to the high rate of inflation that characterized the period across Western Europe, with prices on average rising perhaps sixfold over 150 years.
Price scissors The price scissors is the name for an economic phenomenon wherein changing world price levels cause a country’s exports to plummet in value, while the valuation of its imports remains relatively stable. Historically, the phenomenon has most frequently taken the form of falling prices for agricultural produce and steady prices for industrial goods.
Price signal A price signal is message sent to consumers and producers in the form of a price charged for a commodity; this is seen as indicating a signal for producers to increase supplies and/or consumers to reduce demand.
Price skimming Price skimming is a pricing strategy in which a marketer sets a relatively high price for a product or service at first, then lowers the price over time. It is a temporal version of price discrimination/yield management.
Price specie flow mechanism The price specie flow mechanism is a logical mechanism created by David Hume which dispeled the Mercantilist (1500-1776) notion that a nation can have a continuously favorable balance of trade. Hume reasoned that a favorable balance of payments within a nation would lead to an increase in specie within an economy (Nation 1).
Price system The term Price system is used to describe any Economic system whatsoever that effects its distribution of goods and services by means of goods and services having prices and employing any form of debt tokens, or money. Except for possible remote and primitive communities, all modern societies use price systems to allocate resources.
Price Stern Sloan Price Stern Sloan (originally known as Price/Stern/Sloan) or PSS! is a publisher (now an imprint of the Penguin Group) that was founded in Los Angeles in the early 1960s to publish the Mad Libs that Roger Price and Leonard Stern had concocted during their stint as writers for Steve Allen's Tonight Show.
Price To Play Price to Play was the first single released off American alternative metal band Staind's fourth album 14 Shades of Grey. It was released in advance and became a minor hit for the band, charting high on both rock charts and peaking within the top 100 of the Billboard Hot 100 at #66 Listing==
Price umbrella It is often asserted that a dominant firm provides a pricing umbrella for smaller firms; that is, as long as competing firms price at or below the level of the dominant firm, they will be able to find buyers. Obviously, if their products are inferior, they will have to set their prices substantially below the dominant firm's.
Price war Price war is a term used in business to indicate a state of intense competitive rivalry accompanied by a multi-lateral series of price reductions. One competitor will lower its price, then others will lower their prices to match.
Price's Raid Price's Missouri Expedition, known popularly as Price's Raid, was an 1864 Confederate cavalry raid through the Trans-Mississippi Theater in the American Civil War. Major General Sterling Price fought numerous battles in Missouri and Kansas before being defeated by Union cavalry under Maj.
Price's theorem In theoretical physics, particularly general relativity, Price's theorem can be informally stated as the principle that any inhomogeneities in the spacetime geometry outside a black hole will be radiated away as gravitational radiation
Price-Anderson Nuclear Industries Indemnity Act The Price-Anderson Nuclear Industries Indemnity Act (commonly called the Price-Anderson Act) is an act of the Congress of the United States, first passed in 1957 and since renewed several times, which covers all non-military nuclear facilities constructed in the United States before 2026. The main purpose of the Act is to indemnify the nuclear industry against liability claims arising from nuclear incidents while still ensuring compensation coverage for the general public.
Price-cap regulation Price-cap regulation is a form of regulation designed in the 1980s by UK Treasury economist Stephen Littlechild, which has been applied to all of the privatized British network utilities. It is contrasted with rate-of-return regulation, in which utilities are permitted a set rate of return on capital, and with revenue-cap regulation where total revenue is the regulated variable.
Price/cash flow ratio The price/cash flow ratio (also called price-to-cash flow ratio or P/CF), is a ratio used to compare a company's market value to its cash flow. It is calculated by dividing the company's market cap by the company's operating cash flow in the most recent fiscal year (or the most recent four fiscal quarters); or, equivalently, divide the per-share stock price by the per-share operating cash flow.
Price/performance ratio In economics and engineering, the price/performance ratio refers to a product's ability to deliver performance, of any sort, for its price. For instance, if you have a whole day to travel 100 km, spending $50 to do the journey in two hours is a better price/performance ratio than spending $105 to do the journey in one hour.
Price/sales ratio Price-to-sales ratio, P/S ratio, or PSR, is a valuation metric for stocks. It is calculated by dividing the company's market cap by the company's revenue in the most recent fiscal year (or the most recent four fiscal quarters); or, equivalently, divide the per-share stock price by the per-share revenue.
Price/wage spiral In macroeconomics, the price/wage spiral (also called the wage/price spiral) represents a vicious circle process in which different sides of the wage bargain try to keep up with inflation to protect real incomes. This process in turn is one cause of inflation.
Priceless (album) Frankie J returns with his third solo album Priceless released on October 17, 2006, which includes the hot single "That Girl," featuring Chamillionaire in addition to stand out tracks like "Top of the Line" with Slim from 112, the title track "Priceless," as well as many others. Album includes production from Mannie Fresh (Young Jeezy, T.
PriceRite Wakefern (ShopRite's corporate arm) owns and operates the PriceRite limited-assortment chain of supermarkets throughout Connecticut, New York, Massachusetts, Rhode Island, and Pennsylvania. The chain currently operates 30 PriceRite stores and is growing fast, opening 8 new stores in 2006.
Prices Commission The Prices Commission was set up in the UK under the Counter-Inflation Act 1973, alongside the Pay Board, in an attempt to control inflation. The Conservative government of Edward Heath, elected at the 1970 UK general election, had previously abolished the Prices and Incomes Board in November 1970, shortly after taking power, relying on competition to keep prices down.
Prices of production Prices of production refers to a concept in Karl Marx's critique of political economy. It is introduced in the third volume of Das Kapital, where Marx considers the operation of capitalist production as the unity of a production process and a circulation process involving commodities, money and capital.
Priceville, Alabama Priceville is a town in Morgan County, Alabama, and is included in the Decatur Metropolitan Area, as well as the Huntsville-Decatur Combined Statistical Area. As of the 2000 census, the population of the town is 1,631.
Prickle (protein) The first prickle protein was identified in Drosophila as a planar cell polarity protein. Vertebrate prickle-1 was first found as a rat protein that binds to a transcription factor, neuron-restrictive silencer factor (NRSF).
Prickle cell A prickle cell is an epidermal cell constituting a stratum spinosum, which forms innumerable intercellular bridges. These intercellular bridges give the stratum spinosum a rough appearance to which the cells of which it is composed owe their name.
Prickly anglerfish The prickly anglerfish, Himantolophus appelii, is a footballfish of the family Himantolophidae, found circumglobally in the southern oceans (except the eastern Pacific) , in deep water. Its length is up to 40 cm.
Prickly City Prickly City is a daily comic strip drawn by Scott Stantis, the conservative editorial cartoonist for the Birmingham News, and distributed through Universal Press Syndicate. The cartoon is set in the American Southwest and details the adventures of Carmen, a young girl in pigtails, and a coyote pup named Winslow.
Prickly dogfish The prickly dogfish, Oxynotus bruniensis, is a sleeper shark of the family Dalatiidae, found off southern Australia, and New Zealand, on the continental shelf at depths of between 45 and 1,000 m. It reaches a length of 60 cm.
Prickly Pear Cays Prickly Pear Cay, sometimes spelled Prickley Pear Cay, is a small uninhabited island about six miles from Road Bay Anguilla, in the Leeward Islands of the Caribbean. It is divided by a narrow channel into Prickly Pear east and Prickly Pear west.
Prickly Pear Land Trust Prickly Pear Land Trust is a 501 nonprofit organization from Lewis and Clark County, Jefferson County and Broadwater Counties of Montana. The association of over 700 members aims to protect open space in their area of Southwestern Montana.
Priday, Metford and Company Limited Priday, Metford and Company Limited was a company that produced flour at the City Flour Mills, Gloucester, England for over a century. They were closed down in 1994 and the premises have been converted to luxury apartments under the name of "Priday's Mill".
Pridden Pridden is an area of St Buryan parish,which is located in the west of the Penwith district or Cornwall, United Kingdom. Pridden is located approximately 2 miles east of St Buryan village, along the B3283 in a slight valley and houses a small woods as well as a fam of the same name.
Priddy (surname) Priddy is an anglicized surname thought by some to be one of the Welsh "patronymics," or names created from the father's name. The name may have been derived from the Welsh "ap Ridel," meaning "son of Ridel," an ancient Welsh name from the parish of Lillieslead, County Roxburgh.
Priddy's Hard Priddy's Hard is an area of Gosport, in Hampshire, England now being developed for housing with part of the site retained as a museum. However for some two hundred years it was a restricted-access site; first becoming a fort and then a armaments depot for Royal Navy and British Army weapons.
Pride & Clark Pride & Clark was a family-run company in South London which traded as a dealer in motorcycles, spares and accessories. They were based in Stockwell Road, which runs from Stockwell tube station south-east to Brixton in the SW9 area.
Pride & Joy "Pride & Joy" is a 1963 single by Marvin Gaye, released on the Tamla label. The single, co-written by Clarence Paul, Gaye and Norman Whitfield, and produced by Whitfield (his first production), was considered to be a tribute to Gaye's then girlfriend, Anna Gordy.
Pride and Country Village Pride and Country Village is Michigan's largest village of country stores owned and operated by Tom and Barb Schian. Located now at 5965 East Holland Road in Saginaw, Michigan, P & C had it's humble origins in the basement of Tom and Barb Schian's home in 1989.
Pride and Prejudice Pride and Prejudice, first published on 28 January 1813, is the most famous of Jane Austen's novels. It is one of the first romantic comedies in the history of the novel and its opening is one of the most famous lines in English literature—"It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife.
Pride and Prejudice: A Latter-Day Comedy This independent film, made in 2003 and titled Pride and Prejudice: A Latter-Day Comedy, is set in modern-day Provo, Utah, apparently at Brigham Young University. Jane Austen's novel Pride and Prejudice (1813) has been the subject of numerous television and film adaptations.
Pride goes before a fall Pride goes before a fall is an abbreviation of an ancient saying, or Proverb, designed to warn that often excessive pride will inevitably cause one to fall or fail. Another variant on this quotation is Pride comes before the fall.
Pride London Pride London is the name of the lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender community Pride Parade held in London in June / July of each year. The first Gay Pride march in London, and also the UK, was in July 1972 with around 2000 people marching.
Pride of Baltimore The Pride of Baltimore was an authentic reproduction of a 19th century Baltimore Clipper topsail schooner commissioned by citizens of Baltimore, MD. It was lost at sea with four of its twelve crew on May 14, 1986.

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